Idle Comments
by Avery, Isaac Erwin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charlotte, N.C.: The Avery Publishing Company, 1912. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. 271 pages. Hardcover bound in slate blue cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt. The binding shows some wear but is sound. The spine is toned, and the foot of the spine is bumped. Original owner's name (Mary Armand Nash) on the front flyleaf is dated 1912. The Nash family was from Charlotte, North Carolina. A sound copy with clean text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046858
- Title
- Idle Comments
- Author
- Avery, Isaac Erwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Publisher
- The Avery Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Charlotte, N.C.
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- 1912; Isaac Erwin Avery; North Carolina; Fiction; Literature; Essays; Collectible; Charlotte Observer.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...